Kaj_Sotala comments on The Substitution Principle - LessWrong

68 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 28 January 2012 04:20AM

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Comment author: TimS 26 January 2012 02:21:52PM *  1 point [-]

That's an interesting concept, with the particular advantage that it avoids the "evolved for the ancestral environment" just-so story.


I especially like the unpacking of various specific biases. How do you think the in-group bias would be unpacked?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 26 January 2012 03:03:44PM *  0 points [-]

How do you think the in-group bias would be unpacked?

That one doesn't seem to fit into the substitution framework very naturally: you can come up with ways to do it (I just tried), but they all feel a little tortured. (Or maybe I just didn't think about it long enough.)